David Brooks:"I probably am the squishiest conservative on the face of the earth"

All Things Considered ^ | December 25th | David Brooks ( pull quote )

[Halfmanhalfamazing]

This is a great pull quote.

He's so squishy that he's no longer a conservative.

[SmokingJoe]

“I probably am the squishiest conservative on the face of the earth”

He is conservative like Howard Dean is conservative. Dean opposed 0bamacare too.

[GeronL]

He is no conservative.

[PhilipFreneau]

Brooks is a CINO (Conservative In Name Only). In other words, he is a leftist pretending to be a conservative.

[4rcane]

I think David Brooke was a conservative at one time, but he has a personality of a coward

[PaleoBob]

They do this at the NY Times and elsewhere—they designate someone “conservative” and then depend on him or her (Kathleen Parker is another one) to dispute everything that real conservatives believe. Of what “news” value is this kind of childishness? And they wonder why they are going outta buisness.

[BibChr]

Shouldn’t this be “Breaking News”?

[grey_whiskers]

"Squishy".

Interesting choice of words.

Does he walk like he's going to crush his socks, too?

Cheers!

[mountainlion]

Iraq and Afghanistan are multi national UN confrontations.

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

Crush his socks?lolololololololololololol.Thats a good one.

[Lancey Howard]

Good quote, good post. This is the kind of thing to keep bookmarked for comments on future threads about David Brock’s, er I mean David Brooks’ columns.

[marvlus]

He strikes me as an elitist, regardless of ideology.

[Halfmanhalfamazing]

I doubt the mods would agree with that. But feel free to ask them.

Feel free(I encourage you to) ping as many people as you want to this, or link to it whenever future Brooks’ clips are used by liberal journalists.

[Halfmanhalfamazing]

LOL!!!

[Halfmanhalfamazing]

David Brock........... LOL nice.

In any case, that was exactly what I was thinking when I heard this. This is a golden quote for future use.

For another reason as well. It’s not just that you can quote it in text(transcript available) but you can also direct someone to the audio if they really want it.

Have fun.

[tumblindice]

He was “crunchy” and now he’s “squishy”?
He’s a hyphen, period.

[Brilliant]

Actually, the rest of the quote is more interesting. Even he could not stomach the stimulus or healthcare bill.

[VRWC For Truth]

He’s an extra cripsy flamed Liberal. His other head does the thinking.

[RichInOC]

Well, Dave at least has that much self-knowledge. Good to know.